US2971179A - Mounting device for printed circuit boards - Google Patents

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US2971179A
US2971179A US728993A US72899358A US2971179A US 2971179 A US2971179 A US 2971179A US 728993 A US728993 A US 728993A US 72899358 A US72899358 A US 72899358A US 2971179 A US2971179 A US 2971179A
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
    • H01R12/71—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/72—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/721—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures cooperating directly with the edge of the rigid printed circuits
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/02—Contact members
    • H01R13/26—Pin or blade contacts for sliding co-operation on one side only

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  • the metallized and, therefore, electrically conductive strips of the printed circuit board are mounted in such a manner that they contact equally metallized portions of the socket which have coordinated therewith individual resilient contact pressure exerting members such as individual springs, made of a conventional material such as bronze, which springs have to be individually fastened in the socket or frame.
  • Frames or sockets of this type suffer from a number of disadvantages in particular when used for holding printed circuits.
  • the conventionally used contact springs require a relatively large amount of material in view of the high contact pressures which are required when using printed circuit boards.
  • the conventional frames therefore become unduly heavy and bulky, while it is a well known trend in this art to reduce weight and save space wherever possible.
  • the contact springs must be fastened in the mounting frame by a pressure or riveting method does not allow for a rationalized automatic manufacture of the frames, and partly annuls the advantages gained by the printing of the circuits.
  • the contact springs to be used in conventional circuit frames or sockets must be provided with soldering lugs and the like eyes which tend to bend or break off, and the application of which requires additional Work and material.
  • novel frame for printed circuit boards which is characterized, as a main feature, by a contact-carrying plate of insulating material bearing on its surface or surfaces metal strips which are coordinated with the contactmaking metal strips of the printed circuit board to be mounted in the frame, and by a separate pressure or spring plate which exerts pressure on the aforesaid contact-carrying plate, thereby urging the metal strips of the latter firmly into contact with the metallized strips of the printed circuit boards.
  • the metal strips of the contact-carrying plate are preferably also applied to the latter by printing.
  • the aforesaid contact-carrying plate is provided with recesses intermediate the metal strips serving for making contact with corresponding strips of the printed circuit board, .and the aforesaid spring plate is of comb-like shape so that it bears down with each of its teeth on a metal striprbearing tongue of the contact-carrying plate and urges the latter (into contact with the corresponding metal strip .of the printed circuit board.
  • Figure ,2 is a perspective partially fragmentary view of a circuit mounting device according to my invention assembled together with a printed circuit board held therein;
  • Figure 3 is a cross sectional view of Figure 2 along plane III-III in the latter figure;
  • FIG 4 is a perspective view of the socket body of the mounting assembly shown in Figures 2 and 3;
  • Figure 4a is a top view of the socket body
  • Figure 5 is a front view of the contact plate view of the mounting device shown in Figures 2 and 3;
  • Figure 6 is .a front view of the spring plate forming part of the mounting device shown in Figures 2 and 3;
  • Figure 7 shows another embodiment of the spring plate in front view
  • Figure 8 shows yet another embodiment of the spring plate, in perspective view
  • Figure 9 shows schematically in lateral view an assembly of several mounting devices of the type illustrated in Figures 2 and 3;
  • Figure 10 is a cross-sectional view, taken from the side opposite that of Figure 9, of a slightly modified assembly.
  • Figure 11 is a front view of the latter assembly seen from the left of Figure 10.
  • Figure 1 shows a printed circuit board which consists of a base plate 1 of insulating material on which there are deposited by a conventional method a number of metallized strips 2.
  • the base plate may also carry structural elements such as tube sockets and the like which are soldered on to the plate but are not shown, since this invention is not concerned with them.
  • the metallized current-conducting strips 2 terminate in broadened contact strips 2a which are arranged at the foot edge In of base plate 1.
  • the novel mounting device shown in Figures 2 and 3 assembled together with a printed circuit board comprises a socket or frame body 3 of insulating material (Figures 4 and 4a) having at its front side a recessed portion 3a and at its rear side another recess 3b.
  • the lateral walls 30 of front recess 3a form two shoulders 3d on which the printed circuit board can beset as shown in Figures 2 and 3.
  • a spacing ledge 32 serves for distancing a contact-carrying plate 5 from the printed circuit board.
  • socket body 3 In the embodiment of the socket body 3 shown in Figure 4 the same is also provided with two bores 37 serving for the assembly of several sockets together, and a pair of bores 6b for fastening the contactcarrying plate 5 and a spring plate 6, and, if desired, an external pressure plate 8 thereon by means of fastening means 7 such as bolts and nuts, or preferably hollow rivets or any other suitable connection.
  • fastening means 7 such as bolts and nuts, or preferably hollow rivets or any other suitable connection.
  • the aforesaid contact-carrying plate 5 is illustrated in Figure 5. It comprises a base plate 5a of insulating material which bears on its one surface metal strips 4 serving as contact-making elements co-operating with the contact portions 2a of metallized strips 2 of the printed circuit.
  • the contact plate is provided with recessed slots 5a so as to form a plurality of tongues 50.
  • Lead-ins 13 from the outside can be connected to the conducting strips 4 by inserting their ends through bores 5b in the contact-carrying plate and soldering them on to strips 4 as at 14.
  • the spring plate 6, which is shown in various embodiments in Figures 6, 7 and 8, is preferably made of ahighly elastic metal such as watch spring steel and the like. It is comb-shaped with the teeth 6a and may be curved in longitudinal direction so as to increase the spring effect. The curvature of the teeth 6a is shown in Figures and 3. An embodiment containing a notcurved spring is shown in the Figures 2 and 8.
  • the spring plate 6 and contact-carrying plate 5 may be assembled on the socket body 3 preferably by means of a cover or pressure plate 8 of insulating material and a pair of hollowrivets or similar fastening means 7 passing'through bores 6b provided in the ledge 32 of socket body 3. 7
  • Pressure plate 8 a reinforcing means, prevents an undesirable bending, buckling or warping of the spring plate in a direction transverse to that in. which spring teeth 6a extend.
  • Pressure plate 8 may be eliminated by providing other reinforcing means such as an embossed portion or rib 9 extending transversely to the longitudinal extension ofthe. spring teeth 6a, as shown in Figure 7, which also prevents undesirable bending or warping of spring plate 6. The same effect may be achieved by providing the spring, plate 6 at its foot edge with an angular flange 10, as shown in Figure 8. I v
  • FIGS 9 and 10 illustrate the manner in which sev-' eral socketbodies 3, 3 3 3 may be assembled by means of elongated bolts and nuts 11, the bolts being passed through bores 3f provided in socket body 3.
  • the sockets 3 differ from that shown in Figures 2 and 3 in that the spring plate and contact carrying plate assembly is not flush with the front walls 3g of socket body 3 but protrudes from the same, both plates being clamped in between the front ledge 32 and a rear ledge 3h, filling the lower portion of recess 3b, while the upper portion of that recess provides sufficient space for housing the curved portions of spring teeth 6a.
  • the chamfered edge 3i facilitates insertionof a new printed circuit board after an old one has been. removed from the assembled mounting device, without disass emblingthe latter.
  • the mounting device has me advantage of providing a high, constant contact-carrying contact-carrying plates 5. Disturbances in the electrical contacts are thereby effectively prevented.
  • a mounting device for printed circuits in which a" printed circuit board having metallic contacting strips is inserted therein so that the contacting strips of the same are brought into direct contact with contact means pro vided on the mounting device, which device comp-rises 2 ⁇ socket body of insulating material having a recessed portion, a contact-carrying plate of insulating material arranged in said recess, metallic contact strips carried on said contact-carrying plate, said plate being formed between said strips carried thereon with slots so that said plate forms a plurality of tongues on which said strips are arranged, said strips on said tongues registering with the contacting strips of the printed circuit board, respectively, when said board is inserted into said recess, resil ient plate means abutting on said contact-carrying plate and comprising a spring plate having a plurality of longi: tudinally curved resilient spring teeth, each of which teeth exercises pressure on one of said tongues of said contactv carrying plate independently of the pressure exercised by I adjacent teeth, said spring plate being connected to said
  • a mounting device for printed circuits in which a printed circuit board having metallic contacting strips is inserted therein so that the contacting strips of the same are brought into direct contact with contact means pro vided on the mounted device, which device comprises a. socket body of insulating material, a contact-carrying plate of insulating material attached to said socket body, metallic contact strips carried on said contact-carrying plate, said plate being formed between said strips carried thereon with slots so that said plate forms a plurality of tongues on which said strips are arranged, said strips on said tongues registering with the contacting strips of the printed circuit board respectively when said board is at tached to said socket body, resilient plate means abutting said contact-carrying plate and comprising a spring plate having a plurality of resilient spring teeth, each of which teeth exercises pressure on one of said tongues of said contact-carrying plate independently of the pressure exer-E cised by adjacent teeth, and reinforcing means for said spring plate to stiffen said spring plate against distortion in a direction transverse to the longitudinal extension

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